Here’s question three in our lead-up to World AIDS Day on Dec. 1.
Remember when you answer each day’s HIV/AIDS question correctly, you are eligible to win a free CD – your choice of either Portable Sounds by tobyMac or Beyond Measure by Jeremy Camp. We’ll randomly choose a winner each day from the correct answers.
The answer to yesterday’s question is 72 percent.
Of the more than 2 million deaths worldwide in 2007 caused by AIDS, 72 percent of those occurred in sub-Saharan Africa.
That statistic shows the devastating toll AIDS is taking on the continent of Africa.
Source: 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic,Executive Summary, pp. 5, 18, http://www.unaids.org
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The answer is yes, and our winner is Heather T.
Congratulations Heather.
A person with AIDS always has HIV. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.
A person may have HIV for many years without developing AIDS. An HIV-positive person is considered to have AIDS only when his or her white blood cell (CD4) count drops below the 200-350 range. In fact, until then, a person with HIV may not show symptoms of the infection.
However, an HIV-infected person is still able to transmit the disease to others and may develop AIDS at any time.
True. HIV leads to AIDS.
The answer is YES actually AIDS is developed because of the presence of the HIV in the blood of the people
True.
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. AIDS is diagnosed when T cells are below a certain level.
Yes, that is true.
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Yes – it can take years to develop AIDS after you have the HIV virus.
False. The progression of HIV causes the virus to become AIDS. One cannot have both at the same time.
Yes. Although the reverse is not true.
True, but like others have said, someone can be HIV+ but not have AIDS.
Yes. You can have HIV and not AIDs, but you will have HIV forever one infected.
I’m going to say false..
False. As HIV progresses, it becomes AIDS.
The answer is yes.
True, but someone with HIV doesn’t always have AIDS.
I’m going to say false
I’m not sure, but I think false. HIV can cause AIDS, but I’m not sure if there are other causes.
Yes, HIV is the virus that causes AIDS, so a person with AIDS always has HIV.
The answer would be yes. But a person with HIV does not always have AIDS.